meet in Quito to improve cooperation mechanisms

Yachay Tech University and the National Secretary of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation are hosting the third meeting to coordinate the EULAC-Focus project. This project is an initiative of the Horizon 2020 program of the European Union that is coordinated with University of Barcelona and comprises 19 entities from Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. All these entities have been working since 2016 to analyze cultural, scientific and social dimensions of the EU-CELAC relations in order to provide solutions for a strategic development of relations between both regions.

Meetings will be held in Quito from March 29 to April 1, 2017 at different institutions of higher education, science and technology.

A public event will be held on March 29 at the Auditorium of the National Institute for the Promotion of Human Talent (Instituto de Fomento al Talento Humano). The event will include a discussion panel on Sustainable Development: “Liaison between culture, science and society through transversal lines between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.”

• Place: Instituto de Fomento al Talento Humano (Address: Alpallana y Martín Carrión),
• Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2017
• Time: 17h15 – 18h45
• Livestream: https://goo.gl/UDWhw0

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ABOUT THE PROJECT

Institutions immersed in international cooperation acknowledge the need to connect cooperation in cultural, scientific and social matters to improve transversal interaction and visibility and to emphasize significant initiatives that benefit civil society.

The project began last April, 2016, and is expected to last 3.5 years.

Activities, structure, results

Activities to be developed as part of the project will allow:

• To analyze the role of social and political actors in the promotion of cultural, social and scientific exchange and to promote a more intensive and enriching social collaboration at bilateral and bi-regional levels within the framework of relations between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean.
• To propose a set of actions and initiatives of high impact to strengthen cooperation.
• To address institutions, researchers, experts and actors responsible for public policies in both regions through the dissemination of research results, publications that arise from the project, activities, and conferences that take place throughout the project and that will allow to build connections to activate pilot initiatives.

EULAC Focus will allow for the strengthening of the common vision between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean while shaping the cultural, scientific and social dimensions of these bi-regional relations thus reinforcing Strategic Association.

Team

• Coordinating entity: Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Spain
• Project manager: Samui France (Samui-Fr), France
• Partner associations:
• Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany
• Zentrum für Soziale Innovation (ZSI), Austria
• Methodology Centre for Environment Assessment (Metcenas), Czhec Republic
• Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Berlin (IAI), Germany
• Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), Netehrlands
• Fundaçao de Apoio a Universidade de Sao Paulo (F-USP), Brazil
• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
• University of West Indies (UWI) Trinidad & Tobago
• Universidad Yachay Tech, Ecuador
• Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina
• Universidad de Chile (U. Chile), Chile
• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Peru
• Consejo Superior Universitario Centroamericano (CSUCA), Guatemala
• Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva (MINCyT), Argentina
• Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENESCYT), Ecuador
• Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI)
• Instituto Italo-Latinoamericano (IILA), Italy